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Re: [ITP] neon (A WebDAV library required by Subversion)
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:21:38PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> sdesc: "Neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface."
>
>As per <http://cygwin.com/setup.html>, please don't include the name of
>the package in sdesc. This will appear as "neon: Neon is an..." in
>setup, which is redundant. It should be sufficient to just specify:
>
>sdesc: "a HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface."
>
>Thanks.
>
>(Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. Especially annoying are those
>packages with an sdesc of the package name. "foo: foo" looks really
>stupid in the package chooser.)
Wow. I agree 100% (not surprising since I wrote the words above). I am
astounded by how many occurrences of this there are in the release.
I'm changing these now but I want to make sure that they stay changed.
I will be submitting a package list of offenders shortly.
cgf